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Using all loopback IPs on OS X
I has service that binds random loopback IP on 127.0.0.0/8 subnet on demand (like 127.12.34.56).
It works fine on Linux but does not work on OS X.
Only solution I found was to make alias for each ...
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Switching between windows of an app in different spaces shortcut?
If there are two different instances/windows of the same application located in two spaces, each window inside another space. What is the easiest way (preferably with a keyboard shortcut) to move/...
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Mac OS X : cannot restore mac by any recovery mode
I fooled around and installed Kubuntu on my mac whipping out the HDD completely, but as not satisfied from the OS, I tried to return back to OSX. I had the most recent back-up but when I tried to re-...
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Mac: inconsistent boot problems
I have been having some serious issues with my Mac Pro recently, and my business has been brought to a standstill.
First my specs: Mac Pro 3,1 quad 2.8, 14GB RAM, ATI Radeon 2600 (stock), ATI Radeon ...
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How do I restore the ability to do Terminal commands?
I am using Mountain Lion. I added an alias to my ~/.bash_profile file, and now every time I open terminal, it displays the following:
Last login: Thu Feb 11 09:50:30 on ttys000
Saving session...
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How to Allow outgoing traffic to ports Mac Os
I am not a programmer and I have no experience with coding. Therefore, I want to ask about allowing outgoing traffic to ports on a Mac.
I want to open TCP:80, TCP:11031 and UDP:11235-11335 in Mac OS. ...
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tilde and acute accents not working
I need some help.
I have no idea why but today tilde and acute are not working. I checked system preference, input sources and Canadian French CSA is selected. Nothing else.
When I press alt+ç I ...
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Creating a bootable DMG or ISO for Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
I have a 4.04GB DMG file for Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), which is being used for reinstalling the OS on my MacBook Pro.
However, the bootable USB needs a GPT (GUID-partition table) format. The ...
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Run `sudo` command at startup/bootup on Mac OS X
How to run a sudo on command line when a Mac startup?
Specifically, I'm trying to run the following line on Mountain Lion:
sudo ipfw add 100 fwd 127.0.0.1,8080 tcp from any to any 80 in
There are ...
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Mac OS X 10.8.5 memory usage on the high side. How to lessen or improve
I bought a Macbook with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. It comes with 2GB of memory but it using alot of it from looking at the Activity Monitor.
Here's what it shows: Free: 140 MB Wired: 441.4 MB Active: ...
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diagnosing spurious hard-drive spin-down
I've got an external USB drive that is being used for backup purposes. Occasionally it will spuriously spin-down and Mac OS X will complain that the disk wasn't ejected properly. One reason I have ...
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Why is Git failing to update?
This is actual copy/paste from my shell:
machine:~ me$ brew install git
==> Downloading https://downloads.sf.net/project/machomebrew/Bottles/git-2.2.1.mountain_lion.bottle.tar.gz
##################...
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Paragon NTFS for Mac v12.1.62 shutting down computers, corrupting files
We have Paragon NTFS for Mac 12.1.62 on seven Mac computers. We've never had issues with Paragon for NTFS, but recently updated to version 12.1.62. Ever since, we have had multiple problems with ...
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Disable clamshell mode in OS X Mountain Lion
I am running OS X 10.8.5 with an external monitor, and whenever I close the lid of my laptop it automatically goes into clamshell mode so that all the screen contents switch to the external monitor.
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Xcode Header Autocomplete
I am cross-posting this from Stack Overflow because the question does not fits better in this stack exchange network.
I am using Xcode 5.1.1 on Mountain Lion and creating a command line application ...
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Can I install Windows 8.1 as Bootcamp partition from OSX Mountain Lion using a USB stick?
I have the following:
Bootable USB stick with Windows 8.1 - 64 bit
MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion 10.8.5
The Bootcamp partition currently has Windows 7 installed.
I want to know whether I can ...
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Can't access certain websites
I'm trying to access the site http://www.svenskadomaner.se but it's unreachable from my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.8.5). The domain belongs to a web hosting company and it's not only this specific site I can'...
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Time Machine encryption versus disk encryption
I'm backing up with Time Machine on a Mac Pro to an internal hard drive. I have encrypted my Time Machine backup in system preferences. This resulted in an initial backup of about 2 days, and backups ...
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How to rename item on OS X bootable USB drive
I've created a USB drive that boots a OS X Mavericks or an OS X Mountain Lion installer. It works fine, but I'm not happy with the labels. If I hold option while a Mac is booting, it shows two boot ...
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FTP connection suddenly stopped working
I was working on my server one minute, the next minute for what appears to be no reason at all, I can't connect to any of my servers via FTP. I've been trying for 4 hours so far to find a solution.
I'...
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The Mac OS X package installer doesn’t display the file system partition on which Mac OS X is installed
When a package, in a .pkg file, needs to be installed on a Mac OS X system, the package installer provided with the system is used. At some point in the installation of any package, it asks on which ...
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Can I rename a Print Queue from mcx_0, mcx_1, etc to something more descriptive?
I have some printers that are defined in Workgroup Manager in com.apple.mcxprinting.
Under Always > UserPrinterList-Raw there used to be mcx_0, mcx_1, etc. dictionaries defining the printers. I ...
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Can I upgrade a MacBook 2,1 to OS X 10.8?
I have a MacBook 2,1 mid-2007 model with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core2 Duo processor, 3GB of RAM and 500 GB storage with 300GB still available.
I was using this Mac to submit apps to the AppStore but for ...
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/etc/resolver forward lookup zones are not being included in name resolution
I'm trying to set up HypeDNS on Mac OS X 10.8.4 (Mountain Lion). It allows me to send all .hype domain names to another DNS address for lookup and resolution. I've been instructed to add the file /etc/...
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How can I monitor memory usage of a process running from the terminal in OSX
I am running a command line utility called casperJS (installed via node npm) from the OSX terminal. It's a long running process and I'd like to see how much memory it is using, together with any ...
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Mac OS X Mountain Lion kernel panic after installing latest steinberg sound card driver
I just bought a steinberg CI2 and went to their website to download the latest driver and when I installed it gave a kernel panic. I don't have any backups and is there a way to backup all the files ...
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How do you stop MacBook Pro retina from switching to scaled resolution?
I've got an early 2013 Macbook pro Retina. Until recently I was using bootcamp to use windows, but I found Parallels actually gave a better experience, so I've been using OSX more and more. ...
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Burning DVD+R DL backup on OS X 10.8 via Disk Utility, .ISO too large?
I have a DVD dual layer backup ISO file that, when uncompressing turned out to be 8.74 GB and has an associated .dvd file.
I am a bit confused as as the DVD+R DL files I have only have a capacity of ...
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OS X Mountain Lion - Cannot Select Disk to Install on when using VirtualBox
I want to install OS X Mountain Lion in VirtualBox, but I am having a problem: every time I run the install, I can't get past the "Select a Disk to Install" screen. I always hangs like this.
What's ...
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Sharing Preference Pane unavailable in Mac OSX 10.8.5?
I am currently trying to share internet with a Windows lappy. Most of the sites out there says to find the Sharing pane in System Preferences, but I can't find. I assume it's supposed to be beside the ...
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How to enable the title bar for all windows on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
A colleague of mine has the OS X title bar on all of his different displays and he is not sure how he it was enabled. I would love to have a different title bar per display/monitor.
Any ideas on how ...
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Mac OS X can only view online PDF in Safari
I use Chrome and Firefox to view PDFs online almost every single day. However, from yesterday I noticed that PDFs cannot be opened in both of them. The only browser can open a PDF document online is ...
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VMWare Mountain Lion 10.8.3 (AMD) freezes at load after installing VMWare tools
I had a perfectly working Mac OS 10.8.3 image for AMD in which I developed a quietly big app for iPhone. Don't know why, but today I tried installing VMWare tools because somebody was promising more ...
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Weird Console log spam when switching spaces
I'm on an iMac running OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.5, so whenever I switch spaces I see a bunch of these entries in my console log as part of system.log.
30/11/13 12:42:06.056 PM Dock[208]: ...
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Mac Mountain Lion sometimes work very slow, kernel is overflow, all apps is killed
Sometimes I have unknown delays in my mac.
Everything works well, but one time in 2-3 hours kernel is overflow,
and I need to wait about from 30 sec to 5 minutes untill it will end, and I will start ...
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EFI VMWare Virtual SCSI Hard Drive (0.0)
I am trying to turn on Mavericks in VMware, but I get this error:
EFI VMware Virtual SCSI Hard Drive (0.0)
And then it restarts, errors again, restarts, errors, restarts, etc.
I don't ...
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How can I clear the notification center from Terminal?
I really like terminal-notifier and how it allows you to send things to the notification center.
It even has a handy feature to remove the notifications that it sent, for example if I spoofed a ...
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How can I add myself to _www:staff permanently on osx?
I have a local instance of apache with an application writing to a cache directory. The cache directory is written to by _www:staff. It appears in the finder with a 'no-entry' icon. How can I add my ...
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How to isolate Mac OS X installers (e.g. Mountain Lion, Mavericks)?
I've upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion before. Now, I'm going to Mavericks.
I'm tired of downloading these big installers every time I have to use them. The installers are deleted after ...
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How to use built-in PHP-FPM in OS X Mountain Lion?
I would like to know how php-fpm included in Mountain Lion (v10.8.5) can be used (eg. with NGINX).
I am afraid that some configuration might be needed before it is actually used.
NOTE: I know how to ...
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Run Crontab anytime after 4pm
I am trying to run a script through crontab in osx 10.8.5 that will run at 4:30.
30 16 * * 1-5 /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python /Users/lego90511/PycharmProjects/Stock\ ...
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Mac OSX - Use two network connections to the Internet
On my Mac Mini Mountain running Mountain Lion 10.8 I have two network connections to the Internet. One connection, the one currently being used by this very Safari browsing session, is also very busy ...
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Can "safe sleep" actually be disabled on a Mac Mini running Mountain Lion?
I find that wake on lan stop working after my Mac Mini (late 2012 model, running OS X 10.8.5) has entered safe sleep (which is 4 hours after sleep starts). Because I often travel and want to remote ...
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What is the keyboard shortcut to toggle fullscreen in OSX Mountain Lion?
If I have a window on my desktop in OSX Mountain Lion, I see an icon in the top right corner o the window, made of two diagonal arrows pointing away from each other. I can click this to put the app in ...
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Double MySQL Running on Mountain Lion
After I've done a full restart, my Apache PHP server doesn't connect to Local MySQL ( connecting via 127.0.0.1 because localhost for some reason fails always ).
So I did this today:
➜ ~ mysqladmin ...
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My Mac shuts down if left closed for a long period, even for a long time. Then the power button must be held to a long time to start up
My Mac (Retina, Mid 2012) running OSX 10.8.5 sometimes shuts down while closed, even if it is plugged in. When it does this, I need to hold the power button for a long time, 15 seconds or more. I don'...
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Install octave using homebrew
I found a blog on how to do this here https://www.nesono.com/node/356 but when I do
brew install octave
I get
Error: No available formula for octave
I am on Mountain Lion 10.8.5
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OS X 10.8 can't resize partitions on MBR disk
I have an external HD with a mix of Mac, NTFS and Linux partitions.
I wanted to use it to backup some partitions from my MacBook HD, and partially succeeded, copying a 100MB partition into an empty ...
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What would cause a ColdFusion website to error in only one browser, on only one computer?
I'm using a MacBook Pro running OS X Mountain Lion. A particular website I am trying to visit gives me ColdFusion/Java errors anytime I try to access any of its pages. For a while I thought it was a ...
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How to install mac on a new hard disk without a dvd or bootble usb
How can I prepare myself for installing MAC on a new hard disk.
I am worried if someday I wake up and find my hard-disk has crashed then how can I re-install MAC on my new hard-disk. I know how to ...
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